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t This 10-in., eight-color press, which is equpped with a rotary silk screen station and UV coating, recently produced one of Overnight’s award-winning labels. SHRINK SLEEVES and it will free up capacity on the other printing presses. Says Earl, “We pretty much do anything. We’ll run 1,000 labels, then 5,000 shrink sleeves, then 2 million powder packets, so it’s all over the place.” And, they can do it quickly. With eight presses and 30 employees at its 15,000-sqft Deer Park, NY, facility, Overnight Labels has an average turnaround of just eight days. In addition to its presses, the plant houses one Lederle slitter/rewinder, two Lederle high-speed rewinders, and two Web Techniques slitter/rewinders, all with digital counters. A prepress department includes an Agfa SelectJet 5000 Imagesetter, a Latran Prediction 1420 Digital Proofing System, an HP Color LaserJet 5500 printer, and a Creo (Kodak) direct-to-plate digital platemaking system. Earl says the company’s range of converting and prepress equipment allows A Bar Code Beginning Earl got into the label business 21 years ago when his brother-in-law, who was a defense contractor, lamented the lack of reliable sources for pressure-sensitive bar code labels. Sensing an opportunity, Earl installed a thermal transfer printer in his basement, taught himself how to print, bought blank labels from a nearby converter, “then all the sudden we just started printing stuff—100 of this, 1,000 of that—and now here we are.” One of the company’s first leaps in technology came in 1990, when a customer asked Overnight to print and convert anti-static bags with black and yellow descriptive labels for computer chips and components. The company was able to meet that demand for 400,000 bags/wk by installing the first of three two- and three-color, 6-in. Manhasset presses (no longer being manufactured). The company further expanded its capabilities four years later when another customer went from requiring two- and three-color labels to four-, five-, and six-color labels. To meet that need, Overnight purchased the first of its five 10- to 13in. Aquaflex presses with ultraviolet (UV) coating capabilities and printing to eight colors. “It was either jump into more sophisticated work or lose the customer,” recalls Earl, “so we went out and bought our first Aquaflex to service them. That pushed us to the next level.” Earl says the company originally chose Aquaflex at the recommendation of an employee who had used the equipment while working for another converter. The press worked so well on its range of p-s labels, shrink sleeves, and narrow web packaging that Overnight added more WWW.PFFC-ONLINE.COM Aquaflex presses with rotary silkscreen, hot stamping, and cold foil capabilities, as demand required. Shrink Sleeves and More Today, Overnight Labels produces shrink sleeves; neck bands; flexible film for pouches and sachets; booklet, North America and UPM Raflatac. And recently, to meet the growing demand for shrink sleeve labels, Overnight installed an eightcolor, 13.5-in. flexo press with UV coating. The new press, which is designed specifically for shrink sleeve printing, will be 100% We’ve got unbelievable people working here. —Don Earl, Overnight Labels uConverter Infot uOvernight Labels Inc. | 151-15 W. Industry Ct., Deer Park, NY 11729 | 631-242-4240 | www.overnightlabels.com peel-back, and piggyback labels; IRC coupons; confectionery wrappers; clamshell inserts; and p-s and non-p-s products using substrates from Fasson Roll dedicated to producing high quality shrink items, including sleeves, neck bands, and multipacks. The press is capable of running at high speeds, so output is expected to increase, A 13-in. film press, equipped with six color stations including UV, is yet another facet of Overnight Label’s versatility. The company runs shrink sleeves, flexible packaging, and p-s and non-p-s labels. OCTOBER 2008 | 27 http://www.overnightlabels.com http://WWW.PFFC-ONLINE.COM

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PFFC - October 2008 Contents First Glance Calendar of Events From the Editor Web Lines Process Management News Clips Narrow Web & Label Reporter Narrow Web & Label What's New Products Shrink Sleeves Carton & Box Reporter Carton & Box What's New Products Cover Story - Custom Coating Core Shafts Show Preview Flexo Printing Film Converting Static Control UV/EB Inks What's New Products Trade Show in Print Services Directory Classified Marketplace Equipment Buyers & Sellers Advertisers Index Experience Speaks

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